Thursday, July 16, 2015

Thursday 9th July.

Yesterday, the winds were howling all day with forecasts of 15-20 knots today, which would have made a nice sail with the wind behind us.  Unfortunately we got very light winds, so motored all the way to Sydney, 46 08.24N 060 12.25W

On the way, we found ourselves in lobster pot hell.  Often lobster pot buoys and their lines line up either with the current or the wind.  Today we had little of either, and many of the buoys had floating lines.  We caught one on the prop and untangled it with a lobsterman’s help, then caught another.  While we were untangling the 2nd (on the port prop) we caught another on the starboard prop.  Sometimes having a catamaran with 2 props and rudders 16’ apart is not an advantage. 
Eventually, we got through this mess and resolved to give this whole area a much wider margin when we return to the Bras d’Or in a few days’ time. 

We tied up at Dobsons Yacht Club on their wall.  The city is just across the river, but 10 miles by bike, so we unpacked them and went to explore.  We saw the world’s biggest fiddle, the Cape Breton museum and checked out some places to eat this evening.  Then we returned to the boat for showers at the yacht club. 

2 years ago we met a couple of sailors, Mark and Nerine on Rudder Nonsense in Charlottetown, PEI.  And here they were again, right next to where we’re now tied up.  Small (sailing) world.  They invited us to go to the theatre with them, but we already had plans for dinner. 
We dinghied across to the city for dinner which took 5 minutes, rather than 30 by bike.  Had a nice dinner and returned to the boat by low tide, so that we could check the lines were set Ok for the rise and fall. 


Ships Log: 4651.8, Todays Log: 21.4, Seasons Total: 203.9

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